Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.

For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength.

At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name.

Within the child lies the fate of the future. Whoever wishes to confer some benefit on society must preserve him from deviations and observe his natural ways of acting. A child is mysterious and powerful and contains within himself the secret of human nature.

The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.

We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent.